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Belinda Hickman

Belinda is the sub-editor at Bulls N’ Bears. For over two decades she has worked across a range of state and national newspapers as a journalist and sub-editor for News Ltd and ACM and she is the former West Australia bureau chief for The Australian newspaper.

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Byro Black Shale Octava Minerals Bulls N' Bears 16 Jun 2025

Octava, CSIRO “bioleaching” tests point to critical minerals extraction

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Octava Minerals has received promising early-stage results from CSIRO tests of a low-cost bioleaching process of ore samples from its Byro rare earths and lithium project in WA's Gascoyne region. The stage one testwork focused on identifying, enriching and adapting microorganisms that can process the Byro ore. Stage two tests are underway to see which adapted cultures best extract critical and battery metals from the project's polymetallic samples.

AMERICAN WEST MEATS SEAL HELI BULLSNBEARS 1440 x 960 Bulls N' Bears 20 May 2025

American West to restart Canadian copper-zinc search within weeks

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American West Metals will start its 2025 exploration program at its Storm copper-zinc project on Somerset Island, in Canada, within weeks. The company aims to further define recent high-grade copper discoveries and rapidly grow the region's mineral resource potential. Only a fraction of Storm's 110km-long fertile copper belt has so far been tested by a drill bit.

Thunderbird Resources_Rockvale project Bulls N' Bears 31 Mar 2025

Thunderbird is go with boots on-ground at NSW gold, silver, antimony play

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Thunderbird Resources has kicked off exploration at the company's Rockvale and Kookabookra gold, silver and antimony projects in NSW's northern Tablelands after getting access to priority target areas. The company's initial focus will be on targets that have historical high-grade assay results as it doubles down on its gold presence in the state.

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